Aalto attracts
– Aalto University will build up Finland’s competitiveness with a high-level research and teaching, says Rector Tuula Teeri.Aalto University is a combination of Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The university will emphasize the creation of new expertise, close cooperation with business life, wide-scale national and international networking and the effort to reach the top of the international tree.
– The venture is an important part of the development of Finnish universities towards a more competitive direction internationally. Because our language is so different, Finland has not been one of the most appealing countries in students’ eyes. Profiling and more teaching in English will give us better access to the world map, says Tuula Teeri, the first Rector of Aalto University.
The target of being one of the world’s leading universities has been set for 2020. The high standard will be seen in what universities will be cooperating with Aalto University and how the new university will be rated by the international science and art communities.
The aim of Aalto University is to raise the quality of teaching and research and to improve interdisciplinary cooperation. The additional resources will mean more teachers and improved preconditions for long-term basic research.
–By creating an interdisciplinary system we will be creating the conditions for generating new ideas. Those involved in the cooperation will include the students, teachers, researcher as well as business life and society, Teeri stresses.
Aalto University will be focusing on entrepreneurship training and the development of innovation systems. The new university’s know-how will be found at the crossroads of global challenges and the strengths and core competence of Finnish society.
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Source: Finnfacts Newsletter 5/2009
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